Example sentences of "[v-ing] only [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 2 | It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . |
| 3 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 4 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
| 5 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 6 | This fragment , measuring only a few square centimetres , was divided up and samples , the equivalent of about 50 mg in weight , were given to three accelerator laboratories in Oxford , Zurich and Tucson . |
| 7 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 8 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
| 9 | Channichthyid fish of antarctic waters , for example the icefish Champsocephalus aceratus , are unusual in possessing only a few erythrocytes ( red blood corpuscles ) as larvae and none as adults ; related species have much reduced erythrocyte counts throughout life . |
| 10 | The smallholder , growing only a few rows , will probably ‘ dibble ’ the tubers into the original ridges by hand , thereby saving the subsequent ridging operation . |
| 11 | Unfortunately improvement was short-lived , lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease . |
| 12 | The Soviet work described in this historic talk concentrated on high-power pinch discharges lasting only a few microseconds with currents of up to two million amps flowing between electrodes in straight tubes . |
| 13 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 14 | Strong tetanic stimulation , which evoked large NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic currents , produced Ca 2+ transients lasting only a few seconds . |
| 15 | Most of the registered unemployed are unlikely to be interested in temporary jobs lasting only a few days . |
| 16 | e ) Sudden changes of pressure in the ears when clearing them , either on ascent or descent , can produce in susceptible pilots a strong feeling of disorientation , usually lasting only a few seconds . |
| 17 | Choosing the right hotel for your holiday is a most important decision and it needs careful consideration even if you are staying only a few days . |
| 18 | The temporary nature of her job , staying only a few weeks at any one place , meant she had met and worked for a wide variety of men . |
| 19 | Consequently there are arguments among botanists about the relationships of many plants , living and fossil , and some classifications have quite large categories containing only a few plants , which may be rare . |
| 20 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |
| 21 | In particular , can we move one piece into a desired position while disturbing only a few others ? |
| 22 | ‘ Weak ’ stimuli , activating only a few fibres , fail to induce LTP not because insufficient L-glutamate is released to activate NMDA receptors , but because the level of depolarization provided by the weak input does not produce an adequate reduction of the Mg 2+ block . |
| 23 | South of Loch Hourn is the wilderness of Knoydart known as the Rough Bounds , a region entirely without motor roads and having only a few lonely and unfrequented tracks through the mountain fastnesses . |
| 24 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 25 | Over to the right the tiny Islay ferry boat was just leaving , taking only a few cars and their passengers on the trip . |
| 26 | Since there are no employer 's references to be sought , self-certified loans are quicker to process , often taking only a few days . |
| 27 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 28 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 29 | Both are slow processes ; the establishment of a typical antarctic plant community involving only a few species may take centuries or even millennia ( Lamb , 1970 ) . |
| 30 | The Mediterranean climatic zone , and the mode of life associated with it , is restricted to a thin fringe extending only a few miles inland . |